Hurricane Nate - Look Out New Orleans
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 9:09 am
Hurricane Nate is expected to hit South Louisiana on Sunday evening as a Cat 2 hurricane. The current forecast will put a lot of storm surge into New Orleans.
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Nate gets stronger, sets sights on New Orleans. E&E News.
Hundreds of offshore oil platforms may be forced to evacuate their personnel as the forecast calls for another hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Nate will probably become a hurricane shortly after it enters the Gulf of Mexico early Friday, says the National Hurricane Center. As of late yesterday, NHC did not see Nate strengthening into a powerful hurricane, but the Gulf's waters are warm, with plenty of energy to fuel Nate as it moves north before making landfall. Hurricane Harvey, which very recently wrecked much of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana, grew from a mild tropical storm into a strong Category 4 hurricane within just a few days of its pass over the Gulf. Yesterday's forecast saw Nate's center making a near-direct hit on New Orleans early Sunday morning, 12 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and a little over six weeks since Harvey's impact.
Deadly Storm Nate Shuts Oil Platforms on Track to Gulf Coast. Bloomberg.
Tropical Storm Nate, which has already shut oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, strengthened as it continued north on a path that’ll bring it ashore in the U.S. by week’s end. Nate was about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Isla Guanaja, Honduras, with top winds of 45 miles an hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at about 8 a.m. New York time. The storm’s forecast track has it scraping the eastern edge of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula before becoming a hurricane by the time it reaches the northern Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Nate is set to roil commodities markets once again by halting oil and gas output in the Gulf and threatening orange and cotton crops. Orange-juice futures rose Thursday. BP and Chevron were evacuating and shutting platforms on Thursday ahead of its arrival, while Phillips 66 is said to reduce refining rates at its Alliance plant south of New Orleans.
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Nate gets stronger, sets sights on New Orleans. E&E News.
Hundreds of offshore oil platforms may be forced to evacuate their personnel as the forecast calls for another hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Nate will probably become a hurricane shortly after it enters the Gulf of Mexico early Friday, says the National Hurricane Center. As of late yesterday, NHC did not see Nate strengthening into a powerful hurricane, but the Gulf's waters are warm, with plenty of energy to fuel Nate as it moves north before making landfall. Hurricane Harvey, which very recently wrecked much of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana, grew from a mild tropical storm into a strong Category 4 hurricane within just a few days of its pass over the Gulf. Yesterday's forecast saw Nate's center making a near-direct hit on New Orleans early Sunday morning, 12 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and a little over six weeks since Harvey's impact.
Deadly Storm Nate Shuts Oil Platforms on Track to Gulf Coast. Bloomberg.
Tropical Storm Nate, which has already shut oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, strengthened as it continued north on a path that’ll bring it ashore in the U.S. by week’s end. Nate was about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Isla Guanaja, Honduras, with top winds of 45 miles an hour, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at about 8 a.m. New York time. The storm’s forecast track has it scraping the eastern edge of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula before becoming a hurricane by the time it reaches the northern Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Nate is set to roil commodities markets once again by halting oil and gas output in the Gulf and threatening orange and cotton crops. Orange-juice futures rose Thursday. BP and Chevron were evacuating and shutting platforms on Thursday ahead of its arrival, while Phillips 66 is said to reduce refining rates at its Alliance plant south of New Orleans.